PLENTY TO BE INDIGNANT ABOUT

Spanish protesters say police used excessive force against peaceful demonstration

Spanish May 12 demonstrators via Flickr

Spain’s “indignados” gathered again in the city’s emblematic Puerta del Sol on Sunday to protest against what they saw as excessive violence when riot police cleared the square of a previous demonstration.

ANCIENT P.L.U.R.

How stone age people invented raving

[Image via Christian Kadluba, Creative Commons licensed]

They were the stone-age equivalent of Glastonbury festival. People gathered in their hundreds to drink, eat and party every summer at revelries lasting several days and nights.

I'M NOT LOOKING, I'M NOT LOOKING

Fox News analyst: Romney gay bullying story is ‘nothing’

Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume

Fox News’ senior political analyst on Sunday dismissed a Washington Post story which revealed that presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had assaulted a gay classmate in 1965.

THROWN TO THE WOLVES

JPMorgan executives expected to resign over $2 billion loss

Jamie Dimon via Flickr

Three top executives at JPMorgan are expected to resign this week in the wake of a $2 billion trading loss, including the head of the risk-management division responsible for the loss.

GREAT IDEA

Fmr. Cheney aide: Romney slogan should be ‘I am not a bully’

Mary Matalin speaks to ABC News

A former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday advised presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney that his new slogan should be “I am not a bully.”

PROTESTERS CRASHED THE PARTY

U.S. Trade Rep. given ‘Corporate Power Tool’ award for secret treaty talks

Yes Labs activist David Goodwin, preparing to prank U.S. Trade Rep. Ron Kirk in Dallas. Screenshot via YouTube.

Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership were interrupted on Saturday by protesters who commandeered a microphone and attempted to present the U.S. Trade Representative with a “Corporate Power Tool” award

Science

2000 birds found dead on Chile beaches

SANTIAGO — About 2,000 birds were found dead on beaches in central Chile, a natural…

Nearly 5 million children died of preventable diseases worldwide in 2010

Preventable diseases like pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria claimed the lives of nearly five million children…

Mount Fuji could collapse if fault line shifts

U.S. experts urge approval of first AIDS prevention pill

Tech News

Social media’s impact on kids ‘merits big debate’

WASHINGTON — Facebook’s big stock offering on Wall Street must be followed by an intensive…

74 percent of smartphone owners use geolocation tools: Study

More smartphones means more Americans are using the devices to get location information or to…

Media

Michael Caine given freedom of London borough

Oscar-winner Michael Caine Saturday received the freedom of theLondon borough of Southwark, where the veteran British actor…

Jennifer Hudson’s brother-in-law guilty in family killings

Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson wiped away silent tears Friday as a jury read the verdict…

World

Ugandan army captures top rebel LRA commander

ENTEBBE, Uganda — Uganda’s army has captured a top commander of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a spokesman said…

Palestinian president warns of ‘national disaster’ over hunger strikers

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas warned on Sunday of a “national disaster” if any of the 1,550…

Iraq bomb attacks against security kill five

BAGHDAD — A series of bomb attacks mostly targeting security forces, including a suicide car bombing, killed five people across…

Spanish activists line streets to continue protest of dreadful economy

Masses of chanting “indignant” activists poured into the streets across Spain on Saturday in a vast show of strength one year on…

U.S. News

GOProud: Romney pandering to big government theocrats

GOProud, a group representing LGBT individuals in the Republican Party, blasted Mitt Romney for giving…

Romney adamantly rejects same-sex marriage

Republican White House challenger Mitt Romney, wooing social conservatives, adamantly rejected same-sex marriage Saturday and…

‘I’m not a bully with a gun,’ says AZ Sheriff Arpaio

LOS ANGELES, May 11, 2012 (AFP) – An Arizona lawman known as the “toughest sheriff…

Calls for tougher regulation follow JPMorgan $2 billion derivatives loss

JPMorgan Chase’s stunning $2 billion derivatives trading loss brought new calls Friday for tougher regulation…

Catholic bishops investigate the Girl Scouts

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has opened an official inquiry into the Girl Scouts…